While it's far too early -- there's only $851,000 in sales so far -- to predict how well "Paranormal Activity" will ultimately perform, Paramount executives and any number of exhibitors are starting to believe the little $15,000 scare story about a nocturnal visitor is poised for greatness.
Standing just outside the National Zoo's visitor center, he is poised, mouth open, to make a splash in a wave of turquoise fishing nets and clear plastic bottles.
Opening this weekend at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the installation is not only set to attract thousands of visitors, it's also poised to generate a serious dialogue about the drought in California and social responsibility in the face of dwindling water supplies.
Hopes offered his side further encouragement when he bowled Sixers' skipper Moses Henriques for 18, leaving the game evenly poised with the visitors 4-91 after 11.2 overs.
Asif Khan's ice halo for Swarovski was featured on The Moment last week, but it was fun to see it in person, and fun to see the poised, well-heeled visitors who were attempting to figure out how to get inside the "house" in which it was installed.
The Huffington Post is up 94percentt in traffic this year, has 13 million unique monthly visitors (according to Nielsen), and is poised for profitability in 2010, co-founder Arianna Huffington tells the Associated Press.
Her alma mater had received support from UNESCO and had served as a model school for foreign visitors, its cluster of marble-white buildings poised like an aristocratic swan among gray alleyways and sprawling, run-down quadrangles.
But with the country poised to see nearly 17 million visitors in 2013, the island's 65 ancient villages and 30km of coastline will not remain blissfully unburdened by mass tourism for long.
Built in 1984, on the crest of the Louisiana/Gulf States oil boom, the Windsor Court was poised to handle the flood of visitors to the 1984 World's Fair.
At Grace Road, Leicestershire's match with Derbyshire is evenly poised after the bottom-of-the-table visitors staged a spirited fightback on the third day.
With Carnival celebrations just over a week away and the Olympic Games set for Rio de Janeiro in August, Brazil is poised to receive hundreds of thousands of visitors in the coming months, adding to concerns over the spread of the virus.
